Club High Castle Pre-Pandemic

I survived the retail madness of Thanksgiving and Black Friday for another year! Now that those days won't come around for another 300+ days, I can move on. I caught up on sleep and have my NaNoWriMo project on my mind. With the first draft completed, I sat down and wrote several back stories and renamed many characters. I don't think X, Lord XYZ, ABC Kingdom, and Dude would pass for final draft material. ;) When I am in the throes of writing, I don't always stop to name my characters, hence the lovely "names" listed above! I'll jump into the wild waters of revision after I get my post Black Friday madness rest. I need a few days to recuperate! Now that Thanksgiving is over, we can officially break out the holiday lights, ugly sweaters, and cheesy music! Speaking of holiday cheer,  The Year is Now is still on sale on Lulu! I have to work tomorrow morning, so I'm not ending the sale until Monday night. I can't think of anything profound ...

Yesterday was one of those days where nothing went right, the spirit of Grumpy Cat was in the air, and I seemed to screw everything up. Ah, yes. It was one of THOSE days, the dreaded sort that come once in a blue moon. ♣  Make yourself an awesome dinner. Leftover pizza and hot wings never fails to satisfy a foul mood. ♠  Go on a YouTube binge and put your favorite song on repeat. I went on a Let it Go cover craze. ♥  Pick a hobby and create something (I updated an old Elrond drawing I did last year). ♦  Last but not least, go crazy in a video game! I find this method to be the most therapeutic one out there (aside from taking a walk, but I don't take walks at night...no thanks on that!) Screenshot is from Star Trek Online While these ideas may not completely erase the pent up anger a bad day builds, they sure as hell help. Your mind is always going to dwell on every little aspect of things when Grumpy Cat lingers in the air. When it does, combat it wi...

It's Black Friday all week this week! Get your copy of The Year is Now for 30% off from my distributor, Lulu.com! In other words, get your copy for only $7.70! Visit www.lulu.com/spotlight/mlcrabb for the Black Friday sale! For those of you who like to catch up on my weekly roundups, I'll post a link to Friday's post:  Weekly Roundup - Free thinkers, action figures, and Voldemort

~ A quick recap of things around Empire Earth over the past week. THERE WILL BE NO WEEKLY ROUNDUP NEXT WEEK, 28 NOVEMBER, AS IT IS BLACK FRIDAY.  ~ As soon as I get home from work, I’m sleeping. NaNoWriMo I did it! I managed to write 50,000 words before Thanksgiving. I waded my way through Time’s defensive line and snagged myself a touchdown on Tuesday! It’s been a crazy ride, and I had a blast tweeting about it on Twitter. I haven’t finished the story yet, and I plan to do NaNoWriMo’s validation step later on this month. This week in… Geekdom I went ahead and bought myself a preemptive Christmas present. I can never pass up a good deal on action figures, especially on ones that I’ve been pining after for what feels like ages! The flash drowns out Thranduil, making him seem dull, but the details in him are nice. They did a fantastic job. Oh, and he *is* wearing pants underneath that. Next we have Elrond. I was blown away with the amount of detail in...